He was affable at one moment, choleric the next.

他时而友善和蔼，时而暴躁易怒。

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He seems to have grasped that he has an image problem. He has hired a new, affable spokesman and is courting foreign journalists for the first time.

他似乎知道了他得注意形象，雇了一个新的平易近人的发言人，同时第一次向外国记者传递善意。

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Not only does Clarke have an affable and easy manner on television - a skill which still eludes Brown everywhere but on the GMTV sofa - he also knows where the economic bodies are buried.

这不仅是因为克拉克在电视上表现出布朗所不具备的亲和力(布朗只是在做GMTV的嘉宾时才显得和蔼可亲)；而且也因为他深谙经济症结的解决之道。

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Is he the affable guy who would wave to neighbors, talk with them about his Harley and the little girl he sometimes walked with?

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"In fact I've gone out of my way time and again to point out that he's a perfectly affable fellow, and he's not stupid and he's not mean, " she says.

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Stevens' main liability seems to be that he is an affable, quirky risk-taker in the charm-challenged world of GOP political pros.

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